Equal treatment for men and women – Prohibition of the employment of women in underground work in mining or in a high-pressure atmosphere or in diving work
Judge Rapporteur: N. Colneric
Gang rape criminal offence – Applicabilty of the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences
Maternity allowance in the case of adopted children – Possibility of maternity allowance limited to the mother with exclusion of the father - Unequal treatment
Adoption – Adopted person’s access to information concerning his or her origins – Access to the identity of the biological mother having declared at birth she did not wish to disclose her identity
Refusal to provide copies of birth certificates requested by two girls born in the Dominican Republic to Dominican mothers by local officials as part of a deliberate policy to deny documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent, resulting in the girls being refused their nationality, not being able to go to school, and facing other serious problems – Violation of the right to equality and non-discrimination, to protection measures, to nationality, to having a legal status and a name, and to be part of a political community
Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, girls, birth certificate, intersectionality
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trinidade
Article 8 (Respect for private life) Article 6 (Fair hearing/Equality of arms) Article 7 (Nullum crimen sine lege) - Criminal conviction for certain sadomasochistic practices with others
Transsexual partner not entitled to a survivor's pension payable solely to a surviving spouse − Discrimination on grounds of sex
Judge Rapporteur: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues
Principle of equal pay for men and women – Concept of pay – Taking into account, for calculation of termination payments, of periods of military service – Possibility of comparing workers performing military service with women workers who, after their maternity leave, take parental leave the duration of which is not taken into account for calculating a termination payment
Judge Rapporteur: J.-P. Puissochet
Poor conditions in a detention centre for young people with fires killing nine detainees and injuring many - Violation of the right to judicial protection and to humane treatment given the atmosphere of violence, danger, abuse and mistrust - Violation of the right to life in combination with children's rights in failing to preventing the fire
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade
Rape and ill-treatment of twenty girls and young women in the context of the massacre of 268 people, mainly indigenous Mayans, as part of genocidal counter-insurgence state policy against indigenous people – Denial of justice, intimidation and discrimination to the detriment of the survivors and the next of kin of the victims
Dissenting / Concurring: García Ramírez / Cançado Trinidade
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Transsexual denied legal recognition of her gender change and refused retirement pension from the age applicable to other women
The applicant complained that, if expelled to Iran, he would face a real risk of treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention on account of his sexual orientation - Inadmissible
Work leave in case of adoption or foster care within the first year of the child's life, instead of within the first year of the child's entry into the family – Infringement of the principle of equality by treating adoptive or foster parents and adopted or foster children less favourably than natural parents and children
Substitute teaching conferred during the period of compulsory maternity leave - Exclusion of maternity allowance - Alleged unequal treatment, infringing the right to remuneration and the principle of impartiality
Maternity and childhood, working mothers who adopt - Right to maternity allowance in the case of international adoption - Entitlement during the three months following the entry of the adopted or fostered child, even if he or she is over six years of age - Manifestly unreasonable difference in treatment between employees and self-employed women
Equality before the law without distinction of sex - Possibility for all citizens, of both sexes, to have equal access to public and elected offices in equal shares
Deprivation of the enjoyment and exercise of certain labour rights of migrant workers incompatible with obligation to respect and ensure the principles of legal equality, non-discrimination and the equal and effective protection of the law - Attention to all the areas of discriminatory human behaviour, including sexual orientation
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade / García Ramírez / Hernán Salgado Pesantes / Abreu-Burelli
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discrimination between homosexual and heterosexual partners as regards transmission of tenancy rights on the death of one of the partners
Dissenting / Concurring: Grabenwarter
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Adequacy of protection provided by Bulgarian law for victim of alleged rape - Bulgarian law provided insufficient protection to victim of an alleged act of rape
Dissenting / Concurring: Tulkens